Walking…

 Walking…

These verses in Ephesians looked me in the face as I opened my dashboard this morning…walking…

I love to walk and physically walk everyday, 4-5 miles…either outside or inside on my treadmill(my treadmill is not a clothes hanger, as seen in cartoons).

I have found that inactivity, for me, leads to more inactivity, which means I can’t move as I desire to do…so I need to be active in body, mind and spirit….which leads me back to walking….and with whom…

Looking up “walk” in the Bible, leads to paths, directions and choices…

From Genesis to Revelations, about 345 times, “walk” is used…over the ages, people have had the choice with whom to walk…where to walk and how to walk…and finally, the consequences of their walk…

Adam and Eve walked in the garden with God…until they sinned…

Noah walked with God…

And more, on down through the ages…

Various kings, leaders walked in the ways of their fathers, either good and bad…

The negatives of not walking with the Lord are numerous and leads to dire consequences…

We each are admonished to walk carefully, wisely, in the truth, in the way of the Lord, in newness of life…

Thank YOU for giving us light to our path, helping us walk with YOU…  

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:15-21 

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:9 

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

Exodus 16:4 

You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

Deuteronomy 5:33

in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.”

Judges 2:22

And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

1 Kings 3:14

For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

Psalm 56:13

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

Psalm 86:11

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:4 

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

3 John 1:4